TLO Methods 'n' timed watering!~ Advice

green_machine_two9er said:

Yes. Dry on top is gunna help. I think you could skip adjusting water ph. No real benefit and coukd have negative effects I don't even know of. And yes. I never thought of the hydro ton effecting the flow of waterings. Good thinking there.
When I use to use ocean Forrest I would make it a habit of cutting 1/3 with perlite. Seems to even out the hot soil.

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you're dropping some damn good advice brother!
good job man

greasemonkeymann said:

you're dropping some damn good advice brother!
good job man

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Thanks grease! Just sharing what I've learned from making all the mistakes in the book!

green_machine_two9er said:

Thanks grease! Just sharing what I've learned from making all the mistakes in the book!

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So true, you learn a helluva lot from what doesn't work, as opposed to what helps, waaay easier to see when your plants are pissed.
That's sorta my new project, as i'm slowly taking away certain things to see what minimums I can go with. I find my life and time doesn't allow for me to spend quite as much time in the garden as before.
At this point I see no reason to go beyond my simple amended compost pile and aeration, in fact i'm even considering some sort of passive watering system like a blumat or something.. I just don't like it to be too simple.. makes you lazy, and that's when you get blasted with some calamity.
I mean if it waters itself, and the soil is amended to the degree where I don't add anything other than water, and the lights are on timers...
what do I do exactly?
That's my issue, I got a shitty back and after wrenching on cars all day and THEN getting undoubtedly super high and bongulated after work, if I had that sort of system i'd just hang out and almost ignore them.
Course my steroid-laden Frankenstein spider-mites that can web a plant within hours (literally) would keep me from becoming too lazy

I'm not a fan of fox farms soils... I prefer the regular ole' camo bags of roots organics.... I think it's a better soil to start with as a base... I has no kinda peat in it, happy frog has more peat in it than ocean forest; all need more perlite including roots... They all come with bugs, fact.... But I have started base soils with FF and roots 2x each and both occasions the roots gave me a better soil to work with and a better product....

But castings castings castings and compost are the magic to organic soil...

whitey78 said:

I'm not a fan of fox farms soils... I prefer the regular ole' camo bags of roots organics.... I think it's a better soil to start with as a base... I has no kinda peat in it, happy frog has more peat in it than ocean forest; all need more perlite including roots... They all come with bugs, fact.... But I have started base soils with FF and roots 2x each and both occasions the roots gave me a better soil to work with and a better product....

But castings castings castings and compost are the magic to organic soil...

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I will second the ffof roots test. Roots does better every time. Good stuff Whitney78. !

Any progress on the setup?

IDK but can self watering globes work? My wife uses it for her indoor plants and they work well, outdoors don't work very well at all, just saying!
When the soil drys it releases oxygen which in turn releases water from the water globe.

B4L

why timed water? why not get blumats and let the pots water themselves?